Author: Landon Palmer

As a British colony until 1997 and Special Administrative Region of China, Hong Kong has created a popular culture completely unique to East Asian metropolitan…

During the summer of 1998, one of the two multiplexes in my modestly sized hometown devoted one of its sixteen screens to limited release films…

It’s difficult to imagine what it must have been like to see Seconds in 1966. The third entry in John Frankenheimer’s unofficial “paranoia trilogy” (the other…

There are many reasons to compare and contrast current films with historical ones. One is to attempt to explain why some films have been spotlighted…

Digital Sleaze Auteurs: Paul Schrader’s ‘The Canyons’ and Brian De Palma’s ‘Passion’ Examine Post-Cinema Cinema During a 35th anniversary screening of Taxi Driver at the…

Last week, my partner hosted a screening of Miami Connection, Drafthouse Films’ release of the heretofore largely unseen low-budget Tae Kwon Do musical from 1987,…

I had a roommate in college who, every day like clockwork, ate dry toast for lunch while watching The Food Network. While he never explained…

Blood Outside the Multiplex: The Arthouse Violence of ‘Only God Forgives,’ ‘Fruitvale Station,’ and ‘Act of Killing’ There’s plenty of violence in Hollywood summer tentpole movies.…

I’ve never seen an Andrew Bujalski film before, but I loved his new film Computer Chess, which I’m told is something of a departure for…